Bible Verses About Wickedness

For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the Lord.

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.